Hi!
Okay folks, I had to turn on my furnace!
It hasn't fired up more than a few times, but DANG!
Before you jump all over me, allow me to make it super clear that I am very aware of the fact that we are EXTREMELY lucky. With the fires and flaming tornadoes ravaging the west coast, and the line-up of hurricanes bulking up, getting ready to take turns abusing all those that live along the gulf coast and the many unfortunate enough to reside in their paths, and all of the other natural disasters that are happening around the globe, having to have my furnace kick in a bit prematurely is less than nothing to complain about.
I have a furnace, a house to heat, and a bed to sleep in.
That being said, the firing up of the furnace means summer, even though it's not official on the calendar, is, for all intents and purposes, over.
It's going to be a challenging season, as people become more and more fed up with COVID and everything it entails. So many people that I've talked to are simply sick of it. I think it's safe to say we all are.
We know that it's not going anywhere any time soon. We know the measures we need to take to protect as many people as we can from getting it. We know this thing is Russian roulette.
What we don't know is if the chamber is empty, has a rubber bullet, or if it carries the fatal shot.
If we come in contact with this thing we might not get it at all, we may get it and not get sick, inevitably spreading it without knowing it, we may get sick but bounce back just fine, we may get very sick and have lifelong damage, or, we may leave our loved ones behind to grieve us.
Okay, so how do we get through the Fall?
Roll with it. What choice do we have?
There will always be those who don't want to believe how serious it is, and some who don't want to believe it exists at all. There's not much we can do about that.
Nothing would make me happier than to look back at this stretch of time 10 years from now, and find that the naysayers were completely right, it was all overblown and we completely overreacted.
I'll happily make a diet of nothing but crow for the rest of my life if that happens.
In the meantime, we will just have to make the best of it. All of it.
More and more places will be requiring the wearing of masks. If you have an issue with it, albeit physical or philosophical, maybe don't take your grievances out on the people who work there. It's not their fault.
If the policy, law, mandate, whatever you want to call it involves wearing a mask and you don't want to, or find it hard to wear one, just don't go there.
Personally, I'm claustrophobic, and for me, wearing a mask triggers all kinds of anxiety pretty quickly. Poor me, right? It's not exactly fun, but, thankfully, my hubby isn't, so he's been handling the errands that take longer than about ten minutes. Date nights are definitely different, we miss visiting people and having people over, and the challenges this thing has brought to our shop is a story in and of itself, but we're figuring it out.
Everyone's circumstance is different, for sure. Everybody has to navigate these uncharted waters in whatever way they see fit. But, no matter your beliefs, no matter how you choose to roll, let's all do our best to not take our fear or frustrations out on others.
As the saying goes, in a world where you can be anything, be kind.
Although we are going to have to live with this longer than we ever thought, it's still not forever. We'll just have to lift each other over the hardest parts.
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Until next time...
May we all find a way to get through the next chapter of this unknown.
May we find a way, without our fears and frustrations becoming overblown.
May we remember to be kind, after all, we are all in the same boat.
May we try to see past differences, remember our sameness, regardless of how we vote.
May we all follow the science, it's our only way to the other side.
May we follow the lighted path of science, here at home and worldwide.
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